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Look Out, Firefox 3 — IE8 Is Back On Top For Now
CWmike writes "Internet Explorer 8 has shipped in its final version and is ready to take on its rivals. Preston Gralla reviewed it and says the latest version of Microsoft's browser leapfrogs its closest competition, Firefox 3, for basic browsing and productivity features — it has better tab handling, a niftier search bar, a more useful address bar, and new tools that deliver information directly from other Web pages and services. IE8 has also been tweaked for security and includes a so-called 'porn mode,' new anti-malware protection, and better ways to protect your privacy. The most noticeable new features? Accelerators and Web Slices. Think of an Accelerator as a mini-mashup that delivers information from another Web site directly to your current browser page. Web Slices deliver changing information from a Web page you're not actively visiting directly to IE8. There's one big problem for many, though. No add-ins, and there doesn't appear to be such an ecosystem on the horizon. So if you're a fan of add-ins and customizing the browser itself, writes Gralla, Firefox is superior. But for the actual browsing experience, IE8 has the upper hand — for now."
You're too cool dude, thanks for posting just to tell us you run Ubuntu and can't run IE, thats just too damn smooth on your part.
Wish I could be that cool.
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Do you not like the websites you visit? Don't you want them to keep running?
...will immediately cause you to download and install every spyware, malware, and adware removal program due to the enormous security holes caused by its "new nifty features" you can dump perfume on a giant turd, put it in formalwear and call it "Ms. Arkansas" but it's still a giant turd.
A maybe they just designed for only the FF browser. Looks fine in Opera and FF, can't you afford one of those?
Basically, I test and run in FF and Opera. I mean IE has this big corporation backing it, can't they get some developers to work on making their browser compatible with my website.
So your argument is, that we should spend more time on our designs, so that we can support one of the largest companies in the world?
And yet somehow it manages to run at half the speed of Chrome and IE8 with those same 10 tabs open, and frequently brings my computer to a grinding halt because it doesn't like some random bit of javascript that I can't identify and thus I need to close the entire thing to get it all going again. It is also responsible for a great deal of hard drive grinding on my Vista laptop...
Ram is cheap, I have lots of it, my browser is welcome to it, so long as it does not eat it up exponentially like firefox used to. Firefox has dropped the ball, and its time people started admitting it. Firefox is slow, its addons are overrated and often poorly coded and it has poor handling of javascript, to be gentle.